Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 3 July 1931 — Page 3

FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1931.

FEDERAL FARM BOARDTO REPORT

Will Issue Statement Wednesday in Regard to Surplus Wheat.

Washington, *uly -(TIP- — Out of a situation loaded with economic and political dynamite came a promise from the Federal farm .board Monday of compliance on July 1 with President Hoover’s suggestion for a more definite statement of policy with respect to sales of surplus wiieat now held by the government-financed grain stabilization corporation. Whether Wednesday’s statement will be a declaration that the Board will withhold its wheat from the market for a definite time or until a definite price level is reached, or whether it will be a reaffirmation of the Board’s proclaimed policy to get rid of its wheat with a minimum of damage to domestic producers, is a carefully guarded

secret.

Indications were that the Board has not yet reached a definite de-

cision.

A declaration that the Board will adhere to its established policy would be contrary to the indicated wishes of President Hoover, a possibility which is heavily discounted here. While care has been taken to represent the President as maintaining a “hands off” policy, the fact that he has permitted it to become known that he favors a more definite statement of intention with respect to wheat sales is regarded as an important factor in any attempt to forecast the Board’s probable action. The President has the whip hand in any controversy which might revelop with the Board. He appointed the members and he can dismiss them if he chooses.

PHONE HOLDING CRISIS REACHED

PLAN DROPPED IN DEBT PLANS KING T00PP0SE

Cool and Comfy

Agreement of Interstate France Proves Stumbling

Company Brings Hearing to Abrupt End.

Block; Mellon Confers

With Leaders.

ITALY SETS LEAD

BAN ON RUSSIA IN DEBT RELIEF

Utah Senator- Says Sov

iet Nations Buys Heavily of U. S. Products.

Indianapolis, July .—The public P ar i s > July ’(UP) Th 0 neservice commission’s investigation gotiations of Andrew W. Mellon into operations of the Interstate w ith French government leaders :n Telephone and Telegraph Company an effort to compromise on and its eleven subsidiary utilities, France’s objections to President came to an abrupt ending yester-^ oover s plan is at a critical

day with a stipulation by the com- sta g e -

pany officials that they would dis- general impression was that band their holding and supply com- Edge had encountered great di ffi. panies. culty in attempting to persuade the With the stipulation the commis- French ministers to change their

sion argeed to halt the investiga- position.

tion, which began Monday morning .« The ' Franco-American negotiaand continued until yesterday torg me t at the residence of Premafternoon. i er pjerre Laval at 9:30 p. m. to Representatives of the Interstate continue conversations,” said a

company agreed to a . stipulation terse official communique. “Mr. .modifies w'ould which would close the relationship Mellon and Mr. Edge will inform !absurd” perversion of the meaning with the various companies charac-thpir government of the state of °t' the law r , said King, who is a terized a few weeks ago by Com- negotiations e L |member of the finances committee missioner Harry K. Cuthbertson as “A new meeting will occur Wed- !which handled the tariff acL He au-

“deplorable.” nesday.”

Grand Jury Threat Ended Mellon and Edge were not comAcion of the company represen- mun j cat iv6 when they departed, tatives also was considered as an Laval, Foreign Minister Aristide end to the threat made Monday by Briand, Minister of Finance Pierre Mr. Cuthbertson of a grand jury Etienne Flandin and other nego-

Washington, July —(HP) Senator William H.'King. Democrat, Utah, served notice Monday he will seek congressional action to prevent the treasury from carrying out its reported indent to liar all imports from soviet Russia after January 1. King also suggested that the Hoover debt holiday plan woxtW help Rusia’s five year plan. The treasury’s reported interpretation of the tariff ■ law provision against goods produced by forced labor to include all Russian com-

be an “absolutely

investigation to “jog the memory” of Samuel Tomlinson of Plymouth, president of the Interstate and several subsidiary companies, as to what his relations with the companies were. Yesterday’s examination prior to the abrupt ending, brought a threat from Mr. Cuthbertson to turn another witness over to Attorney General James M. Ogden for a citation for perjury. Mr. Cuthbertson said the testimony of V. P. Russell of Columbus, formerly auditor and director of the Midwest Supply Company, a subsidiary company, w r as contradic-

tory.

The stipulation made by officials of the Interstate company, recently taken over by the United Telephone company of Abilene, Kas., purchased from the James P. Goodrich interests, was described by Mr. Cuthbertson as a “complete victory” for the commission and the contention that the commission has power to regulate and control utility holding companies.

tiators also maintained silence.

Man Still Active At Century Mark

July

nounced he has a resolution already drawn up providing for the creation of a commission to study Russian conditions bearing on Rus-sian-American trade relations and that he will insist upon action, if the treasury persists in its reported

plan.

King said he had the resolution ready for introduction during the last session, but withheld it on pleas to allow more time for a working out of questions relating

to trade with Russia.

Commenting on the theory that •—’soviet regulations forcing laborers

© stehlisuks rjlHIS summery jacket costume of A navy blue georgette shows an interesting treatment of the white contrast mode. The one-piece dress has two small pleated ruffles outlining a strip of crystal buttons. White is repeated in straight white revers on the jacket and fish fin cuffs. White gloves, blue straw hat, blue and white kid bag and kid pumps to match complete the color^theme. —i o

JURY HAS BEGUN POISON PROBE

Investigation Opened on Death of Two Girls at Picnic.

Lebanon, July .-—Grand jurv investigation of the poison deaths of Virginia and Alice Jean Simmons opened here today. The jurors were convened by Judge John W. Hornaday, of Boone Circuit Court, to hear results of the inquest of Coroner A. G. Owsley, and a preliminary inquiry conducted by Sheriff Wilbur Small and Prosecutor Ben Scifres. As plans for an indictment were being prepared by the state, announcement was made of the appointment of a third private de tective to seek the solution of the strychnine sandwich mystery. R. E. Mote, Indianapolis, was retained to work out the case from a defensive angle. A. G. Devore and Harry Bendel w r ere retained yesterday. Roy W. Adley, Lebanon attorney, was appointed to assist Scifres in the prosecution. The two girls died after eating sandwiches in which strychnine capsules had been placed Mrs. John Simmons, their mother, is being held in the- county jail here awaiting the outcome of yie grand

jury action.

Father In Asylum Los Angeles, Cal., July 1,—Benton L. Barrett, who is the father of Mrs. Carrie Simmons, aged JJ, now held at Lebanon, Ind., in connection with a picnic poison mystery, in which her two daughters died ,is an inmate of the Norwalk, Cal., Hospital for the Insane, it was revealed today.

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HARBOR GRACE

Here’s the route 'round the world taken by the record-smashing aerial globe-trotters, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, in their sensational flight from New York to Europe, across hazardous Asia and Siberia into Alaska and thence across the

Canadian northwest and United States back to New York. The remarkable time in which Gatty and Post made the swing around the globe not only broke the Graf Zeppelin record, but chopped it just about in half. All hail to the boysl

That Government surplus of| Times like these will at least

wheat doesn’t seem such a great problem since the Weathert Bur-

eau has taken a hand.

benefit the little strip of lawn between the dining room and the

garage.

Americans don’t really agree on anything except the idea that Will Rogers is a college man and really knows better.

RIOTERS KILL POLICEMAN

Berlin, July —A policeman was killed last night at the head of a riot squad called out to quell

Hang On,

Worcester, Mass

(UP) — Birthday anniversaries to work or be deprived of the right “don’t mean anything” to Charles Uo buy food, which is understood to W. Eldridge who Monday observ-ibe the basis upon which the treased his 100th anniversary by buck-jury may rest its embargo on all ling down to routine work at a local ( Russian commodities, King replumbing shop where he is em- marked:

ployed—and has been since 1901

—as bookkeeper.

Eldridge gets a “big kick” out of life—“just as I always have.” “Most centenarians feel old simply because popular belief is that one should feel old at 100,”. he declared in an anniversary interview with the United Press. “I

“You can’t 1 indict a whole peo-

ple.”

iO HATCHING QUAIL EGGS

Danville.—<UP)—Quail eggs can be batched artificially, despite popular belief to the contrary, it was shown here by the Danville

don’t feel any older than I did 25! electric hatchery, which exhibited

or 30 years ago. That’s because I don’t act as though I was an old man.”

Correct this sentence: “A job is property,” said the gove’no", “an'’ t shall cUl out the troops to

a'protect the strikers.”

18 quail hatched by its process. • -o—= “What did man descend from?” asks a headline. Well, if you mean recently, we’d say a high horse. There is as much reproof in thp average home as there ever was |The only differenc is that the par jents get it.

Lads, the

Going’s Rough I

Notifies Other Nations That Reparations and Debts are Suspended.

Rome, July ' —(UP)—The Fascist government, as a gesture of confidence in success of President Hoover’s debt plan, last night moved to put the project into effect as far as Italy is concerned by notifying Germany, Austria, Hungary and j Bulgaria that their reparations and] war debt payments to Italy, due to r day, were suspended. Simultaneously, the government informed the United States anrH England that Italy was ready to pay its regular war debt installments, subject to decision by the American and British governments, which may accept or reject the plan, in case of failure to make the Hoover proposals effective. In view of the deadlock in negotiations for French acceptance of the Hoover debt plan, the Italian move was viewed as designed to speed developments. In the communication to Germany and her former allies it was implied that payments should be subject to collection later if the proposal of President Hoover for a debt holiday is not made effective, and in the communications to the United States and England it was made clear Italy was ready ta pay pending complete acceptance of the Hoover plan. The government’s action in declaring a moratorium for her own debtors without awaiting outcome of the present negotiations for complete acceptance of the Hoover plan by France, was considered a gesture of confidence in the debt holiday project, despite the present difficulties. “While awaiting negotiations actually under way for definite accord between the interested governments, Italy—following its attitude of cordial and full adherence to the Hoover proposal—takes preliminary steps toward the principle ofi execution of the American project,’ said an official communique. It was said, however, that Italy would expect her creditors to pay later if the Hoover plan fails. —4 : —O—I Turtle 6C0 Years Old, Died Monday

Niagara Falls, N. Y., July _.— (UP)—William “Red” #1111, old time riverman who did a barrel I'Oll down the Niagara river rapids Memorial 1 day, announced Tuesthat the famous' turtle, “Sonny Boy,” 600 years old, died Monday. The shell-back was the good luck charm carried over the falls in a barrel by George Stathakis, Buffalo restaurant worker, in his fatal ride last July Fourth. The cause of death was unknown. “Red” said the turtle had eaten his meals with gusto yesterday but this morning refused a breakfast of choice horse flies. “Red’ said “Sonny Boy” may have succumbed to old age.

s an interesting and precariously photographed made from the slanting deck of King George’s

Here’s

new

yacht, Brittania, during the first contest of the season at the regatta staged on the Solent, in England. The picture shows the yachts Candida and

Astra trailing the royal craft as all roll and plunge in the choppy sea. Note the ocean liner far in the background. A comparison in water craft that’s . ... *■■ ■ -~*--**HS-*r*-*-interesting. '

Yet the same great minds that know depression was caused by the war are the ones that told us it never would come. Wiggam says opposites don’t marry. There is abundant evidence that opposite opinions dc. Americanism: Growling because the Federal Government intrudes on state rights; yelling for Federal aid.

“the Iruth for which our ancestors fought and suffered..”

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the easy v/ay for the moment of difficulty, but the common sense of the common man, the inherited tradition of an intle pendent and self-reliant race, the historical memory of Americans whoglory in Valley Forge even as they glory inYorktown—all these tell us the truth for which our ancestors fought and suffered, the truth

which echoesupw r ard from this soil of blood and tears, that the way to the nation’s greatness is the path of self reliance, independence and steadfastness in times of trial and stress. “Numerous are the temptations under the distress of the day to turn aside from our true national purposes and from wise national policies and fundamental ideals of the men who builded our republic. Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea and of easy ways to imagined security more tempting. “For the energies of private initiatives, of independence, and a high degree of individual freedom of our American system we are offered an alluring substitute

The folim'itig excel ^in are from the address of Pres ident Hoover delivered on Memorial Day^ 1931 at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

in the spe i ''ons claim that everybody collectively ewes each of us individually an opportunity to earn a living, and the equally specious claim that hired representatives of a hundred million people can do better than the people themselves in thinking and planning their daily life. “The revolution of which Valley Forge was the darkest

but perhaps the most glorious moment, was fought not alone for national independence but to retain our freedom to continue unhampered the most promising social

experiment in all human history.

“We must ever continue that fight. Amid the scene of vastly growing complexity of our economic life we must Preser ve the independence of the individual from the deadening restraints of government, yet by the strong arm of government equally protect his individual freedom, assure his fair chance, his equality of opportunity from the encroachments of special privileges and greed or

domination by any group or class.”

Indiana General • * ,v . Service Company